The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27
Religious Notes.

W. R. Aleer: The line of life is ragged dag
onal between duty and desire.
Francis de Sales: Great occasions of serving
God present themselves seldom, but little
frequently.
Rochefoucauld: We are never made so re-
diculous by the qualities we have, as by those
affect to have.
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat
from it shall advance in it, and the further
on we go the more we have to come back.
Sir Aubrey De We're: This span of life was
lent or lofty duties, not for selfshness; not to
be VIII lied away In aimless dreams. but to I'M
prove ourselves and serve mankind.
Sufficient subscriptions have now been Sc
cured to pay off the last 5000, 900 of debt the
Young Mems Christian Association building at
Philadelphia The property Is worth 500, OOO-
It is the glorious prerogative of the empire
knowledge that what it gains it never loses.
On the contrary it increases by the multiple
of its own power; all its attachments help to
new conquests.
Sidney Smith: in order to do anything in this
world that is worth doing, we must not stand
shivering on the bank and think of the cold and
danger, but jump in and scramble through as
well as we can.
employs 800 men, women, and children, and has
a Sunday-school of 1000 scholars in connection
with his factory. The chapel where the Sunday
school meets cost $40. 900.
The Rev. A. S. Hunt, d. D., of the American
Bible Society, is reported to have said that, in
proportion to their means and circumstances
the coIOred people contribute more largely to
the various benevolent enterprises of the church
than any other people on this continent.
w. E. Claiming The sages and heroes of
history are recedng from us, and history
tracts the records of their deeds into narrower
and narrower page; but time has power over
over the name and deeds and words of Jesus
Christ.
f. r. Haverga1 When come back from
the battlefield, weary, yet victorious, may
look for our King of Peace coming to meet us
with bread and wine and his own priestly bless
ing, that we may be strengthened and refreshed
by himself
Frederick W. Faber: When men do any
thing for God, the very least thing, they never
know where it will end, nor what amount of
work it will do for Him. Loves secret, there
fore, is to always be doing things for God, and
not to mind because they are such very little
ones
Hon II. C. Akeley. formerly of Grand Haven,
Mich, but now in Minneapolis has donated an
elegant residence. his former home. and half
block of land to the Episcopal Church at Grand
Haven. The property is worth S3o 000 and will
be used ladies' college. Work will be be-
gun right away. and when completed the
institution will be known the Akeley College.
Matthew Henry: The spirit convinces US of
the fact of sir. that we have done so and so of
the fault of sin, that we have done Ill in doing
SO; of the folly of sin, that have acted against
right reason and our true interest of the filth
of sin that by it become odous TO God;
of the fountain of sin, the corrupt nature; and
lastly of the fruit of SIM that the end thereof is
death.
French statistics of 1886. which have just been
published are, to use the words of a contempor-
airy religious journal, truly alarming" Year
by year the number Of births goes on decreasing